Leader, Software Engineering

Meet the Team

Cisco Nexus Dashboard is the unified operations platform designed to simplify and accelerate data center management. Built on a robust, Kubernetes-based micro-services architecture, it serves as a single pane of glass for the Cisco data center portfolio.

By integrating advanced telemetry, orchestration, and policy management services, the platform empowers organizations to streamline their operational workflows, enhance visibility, and ensure consistent configuration and security across diverse physical and virtual environments.

The Nexus Dashboard infrastructure team serves as the backbone of our platform, engineering the critical services that ensure stability, security, and seamless lifecycle management for our global data center customers. By managing the core Kubernetes-based architecture, our team provides the essential foundation upon which advanced orchestration, telemetry, and policy services are built and scaled.

We are a fast-paced, dynamic group that thrives on collaboration, constant innovation, and a sense of urgency, working closely with cross-functional teams to solve complex infrastructure challenges in real time. We foster a culture of continuous learning, coaching, and technical excellence, making this the ideal environment for leaders passionate about building robust, high-scale infrastructure.

Your Impact

Joining the Nexus Dashboard infrastructure team means operating at the cutting edge of platform technologies, where you will direct software systems, applications, and quality assurance functions while driving the AI transformation of our engineering processes.

• Core Platform Engineering: Maintain the core infrastructure of the Nexus Dashboard, ensuring high availability and performance across its integrated data stack, including PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and Kafka.
• Cluster Lifecycle Management: Oversee the full deployment lifecycle of multi-node clusters, including automated installation, configuration, and seamless inline software upgrades across diverse physical and virtual form factors.
• System Reliability & Observability: Support critical infrastructure services, including robust backup and restore frameworks, automated anomaly detection, and comprehensive audit logging to ensure uncompromising platform quality, reliability, and operational transparency.
• Scalability & Performance Optimization: Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to optimize platform scalability and resource efficiency, ensuring a resilient foundation for data center telemetry and orchestration services.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, high performance, and operational excellence.
• Drive change and embrace AI transformation by translating the organization's AI vision into actionable team strategies, championing an AI-first approach to reinvent product development.
• Lead large, complex projects and software teams from technical design and requirements through completion, ensuring adherence to high standards of quality and urgency.
• Collaborate cross-functionally and manage technical standards, external technology providers, and internal dependencies.
• Contribute to and maintain robust processes for design reviews, security compliance, and automated testing.
• Provide critical insights to identify areas for continuous improvement in process, architecture, design, and secure development practices.
• Manage product and system-level tradeoffs, making informed design decisions to drive quality and consistency while dynamically updating team priorities.
• Own the quality of products within your area of responsibility, delivering actionable recommendations regarding issues, opportunities, and performance enhancements.
• Contribute to product roadmap discussions, provide accurate schedules and resource estimates, and manage daily development activities, structured work, coding standards, and code reviews.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8 to 10 years of related experience, or Master's degree with 4 to 6 years of related experience.
• Previous supervisory or technical team lead experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of Linux system internals, including process management, file systems, and networking.
• Expertise in distributed databases and messaging systems, such as PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and Kafka.
• Demonstrated experience leading cloud-native infrastructure or Kubernetes-based platform development.
• Strong track record of coaching engineering talent, driving operational excellence, and executing with a sense of urgency.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.

Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.

Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

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